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Post by pointexas on Aug 17, 2024 20:20:43 GMT -5
Does anyone know if the exhibition match at Notre Dame will be open to the public
Hmm, I'm seeing a Notre Dame exhibition game against Michigan State on August 21. Is that the one you're wondering about?
Oop apologizes. I was looking at 2 schedules at once and got them mixed up. Sorry about that!
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Post by exit237a on Aug 17, 2024 20:22:40 GMT -5
Hmm, I'm seeing a Notre Dame exhibition game against Michigan State on August 21. Is that the one you're wondering about?
Oop apologizes. I was looking at 2 schedules at once and got them mixed up. Sorry about that!
You're good!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2024 20:29:53 GMT -5
If you haven’t seen it, there is great synopsis of ILLINOIS on page 56 of the Big Ten 2024 - Oh My thread Really well done. Good info.
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Post by Pasquale on Aug 19, 2024 10:45:21 GMT -5
As in recent years, the News-Gazette is showing their bias towards Illinois women's basketball. Over the past month, they've published numerous player profiles and articles about the upcoming women's basketball season (which starts on October 30) and not a single article on the volleyball team (whose season starts in less than two weeks). I enjoy and support Illini Women's Basketball, but this is unacceptable. Please do better, N-G.
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Post by oldmanvb on Aug 19, 2024 18:17:12 GMT -5
As in recent years, the News-Gazette is showing their bias towards Illinois women's basketball. Over the past month, they've published numerous player profiles and articles about the upcoming women's basketball season (which starts on October 30) and not a single article on the volleyball team (whose season starts in less than two weeks). I enjoy and support Illini Women's Basketball, but this is unacceptable. Please do better, N-G. Some of the blame for this falls on the information people within the athletic department. With shrunken staffs newspapers depend upon others to write a remarkable amount of stuff that gets into print. If someone on the athletic department staff wrote an article about the upcoming season and sent it to the N-G, chances are good it would be printed. The media relations person for women’s basketball does a terrific job. BTW, compare women’s basketball social media with the volleyball instagram page.
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Post by Pasquale on Aug 19, 2024 18:48:09 GMT -5
As in recent years, the News-Gazette is showing their bias towards Illinois women's basketball. Over the past month, they've published numerous player profiles and articles about the upcoming women's basketball season (which starts on October 30) and not a single article on the volleyball team (whose season starts in less than two weeks). I enjoy and support Illini Women's Basketball, but this is unacceptable. Please do better, N-G. Some of the blame for this falls on the information people within the athletic department. With shrunken staffs newspapers depend upon others to write a remarkable amount of stuff that gets into print. If someone on the athletic department staff wrote an article about the upcoming season and sent it to the N-G, chances are good it would be printed. The media relations person for women’s basketball does a terrific job. BTW, compare women’s basketball social media with the volleyball instagram page. I realize this and have periodically reached out to the media relations coordinator for women’s volleyball. I have yet to receive a response. Coach Tamas needs to address this with Illinois Athletics. At one point, it was not uncommon to read 3-4 articles or more a week during the season.
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Post by ilalum92 on Aug 19, 2024 23:29:53 GMT -5
Emily Ehman ranked the Top 20 players in the Big Ten. She put Raina at #11.
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Post by liberovb10 on Aug 20, 2024 8:15:21 GMT -5
As in recent years, the News-Gazette is showing their bias towards Illinois women's basketball. Over the past month, they've published numerous player profiles and articles about the upcoming women's basketball season (which starts on October 30) and not a single article on the volleyball team (whose season starts in less than two weeks). I enjoy and support Illini Women's Basketball, but this is unacceptable. Please do better, N-G. To be fair - since Hambly left - there’s been less and less visibility into this program. Local news and social media coverage haven’t been great.
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Post by pointillinois on Aug 20, 2024 9:01:06 GMT -5
It's all about winning. Women's basketbal was not covered when Fahey was losing every game. But they've made the post-season for 2 straight years, landed a 4-star recruit, and have some high-level donor backing. Unfortunately, volleyball has none of that going for the program.
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Post by oldmanvb on Aug 20, 2024 10:31:55 GMT -5
It's all about winning. Women's basketbal was not covered when Fahey was losing every game. But they've made the post-season for 2 straight years, landed a 4-star recruit, and have some high-level donor backing. Unfortunately, volleyball has none of that going for the program. I may be viewing this through orange colored glasses (imagine that) but I think this year's recruiting class and transfer class will bring some excitement back. The additions of Averie and CMM from the transfer portal address the two biggest weaknesses from last year's team, left side pin and passing. Of all of the new additions, I truly believe CMM will end up being our most significant new contributor. If she can get our passing and backrow play up to B1G standards and silence this boards cries of anguish over our terrible passing we're going to surprise a bunch of teams. And our two North Carolina freshmen are our two best recruits in years.
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Post by exit237a on Aug 20, 2024 16:24:01 GMT -5
Looks like single match tickets are now on sale! Hey, tedheise- I’m reminded that previously you have wanted a notification when single game tickets go on sale for games at Huff Hall. Nebraska is coming to Huff in October : )
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Post by vbkahuna on Aug 20, 2024 17:13:25 GMT -5
It's all about winning. Women's basketbal was not covered when Fahey was losing every game. But they've made the post-season for 2 straight years, landed a 4-star recruit, and have some high-level donor backing. Unfortunately, volleyball has none of that going for the program. Granted, Women's volleyball hasn't made the playoffs the last two years, but their accomplishments since 2017 are something that Women's basketball has yet to even get close to. The Illini WVB have been to the playoffs 4 times since 2017, with 2 of those times getting to the Sweet Sixteen (2017 and 2021), and one time to the Final Four (2018). That's not chopped liver playing in the toughest VB conference in D1. No shade intended on Women's BB. They've been improving and are getting good media coverage and athletic department financial support with top-notch facilities that significantly help to attract top recruits. Hopefully, they'll be able to reach the Sweet Sixteen and Final Four levels that Women's VB has already managed to reach without that same level of support.
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Post by inpaign on Aug 20, 2024 19:07:59 GMT -5
It's all about winning. Women's basketbal was not covered when Fahey was losing every game. But they've made the post-season for 2 straight years, landed a 4-star recruit, and have some high-level donor backing. Unfortunately, volleyball has none of that going for the program. I may be viewing this through orange colored glasses (imagine that) but I think this year's recruiting class and transfer class will bring some excitement back. The additions of Averie and CMM from the transfer portal address the two biggest weaknesses from last year's team, left side pin and passing. Of all of the new additions, I truly believe CMM will end up being our most significant new contributor. If she can get our passing and backrow play up to B1G standards and silence this boards cries of anguish over our terrible passing we're going to surprise a bunch of teams. And our two North Carolina freshmen are our two best recruits in years. Couldn't agree with this more - I'm not sure even those who follow B1G volleyball closely understand quite how big of a transfer CMM is for our Illini. That's not unexpected since she is coming from a smaller school in EIU. I love that our two transfers who I foresee getting the most playing time have in-state roots with CMM from EIU and Averie from Bloomington, along with Vivian from Oswego! If everything goes to plan, I believe we could surprise some teams.
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Post by tedheise on Aug 20, 2024 20:22:59 GMT -5
Looks like single match tickets are now on sale! Hey, tedheise- I’m reminded that previously you have wanted a notification when single game tickets go on sale for games at Huff Hall. Nebraska is coming to Huff in October : ) thanks, exit237a! I also got an e-mail from the ticket office, but it turns out Mrs. tedheise and I have other plans then.
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Post by exit237a on Aug 20, 2024 22:14:50 GMT -5
Looks like single match tickets are now on sale! Hey, tedheise- I’m reminded that previously you have wanted a notification when single game tickets go on sale for games at Huff Hall. Nebraska is coming to Huff in October : ) thanks, exit237a! I also got an e-mail from the ticket office, but it turns out Mrs. tedheise and I have other plans then. Well a 2025 or 2026 match will be here before ya know it!
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